1 Kings 21:18

Elijah meets Ahab and tells him God's sentence. Ahab repents and the punishment is deferred (Not in Chronicles)

18. whichis [R.V. dwelleth] in Samaria This change is necessary for consistency in the narrative. There is no verb in the original, as will be seen from the italics of A. V. The verbs describing the action first of Ahab and then of Elijah, shew that both had gone down, the one from Samaria, and the other, perhaps, from Carmel, to the city of Jezreel, which lay on lower ground than either.

to possess it R.V. to take possession of it. Thus it is shewn that the expression is the same as in 1 Kings 21:15-16; 1 Kings 21:19.